Rick Mofina

An excellent thriller.
Paige Baker is lost in the Montana's Glacier National Park. Due to past cases involving children, FBI gets involved from the start along with Park rangers and SFPD. They immediately suspect foul play and Doug and Emily Baker (the parents) are immediately under suspicion. The events leading to the Baker's family vacation further complicates the case. In the meantime, there is something Emily is hiding about her past that seems to be connected to the case.
In a parallel story, A child killer Isaiah Hood is scheduled to be executed. But a last minute plea of innocence by him baffles his lawyer David Cohen. He tries to investigate and finds a shocking connection between Hood and the missing girls case.
What is the connection? Is Paige really lost? Is Paige alive or dead? Can FBI uncover Emily's secrets? What are these secrets? Is Doug responsible for the events?
Answers to all these questions are revealed in the un-putdown-able book by Rick Mofina.
I am giving a 5 star review for a book after a very long time (in fact, first time except harry potter books which I really like). And the book deserves it. This is a thriller that lives up to expectations till the very last page of the book. There is never a dull moment in the narration and you feel exhilarated by the end. You are tired as if you were involved in the search for Paige, as if you were investigating the case yourself. I have never felt like this before, (may be only once when I read [b: Da Vinci Code|968|The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)|Dan Brown|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1303252999s/968.jpg|2982101]).
Thrillers and Suspense novels usually suffer from poor endings where you enjoy reading the book till the very end and then feel disappointed when you read the climax either because the ending seems to be out of the blue with no clue in the entire book, or because you had already anticipated the end. In this book however, you get to formulate 3-4 possible endings and each of these are explored in the book. At the end, you are not disappointed to find one of these to be true. That is the power of narration by [a: Rick Mofina|93666|Rick Mofina|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1277928341p2/93666.jpg].
If you love Thriller stories, This is a must read. If you love any type of Fiction, this is a must read.… (more)

Charlotte picked up her brother from school. They are walking home through the park and Gabriel is playing with his toy plane…until he is gone. He is missing!

This used to be a trigger for me, a child missing. I could not read a book with this trope when my children were little. This story still had me in knots! I cannot fathom a mom going through this.

This novel is intense, intriguing and…I am not going to lie…terrifying in places. The only reason for the 4 star rating, I felt the conversations, in some places, were a bit canned. But, the intensity has me on the edge of my seat!

Needs a tale which will have gasping for air…THIS IS IT! Grab your copy today.

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Someone Saw Something by Rick Mofina is a highly recommended family drama centered around the search for a child who has gone missing and presumed to be abducted.

News anchor and journalist Corina Corado asks her sixteen-year-old stepdaughter, Charlotte, to pick up her six-year-old little brother, Gabriel, from school because their father, Robert had to delay his flight and is unable to do so. Charlotte and Gabriel walk through Central Park on their way home so he can have a text flight of a plane he made. As the plane flies over a hill, Gabriel runs off to get it and Charlotte, who is texting, says she'll be right there waiting for him... but he doesn't come right back. Charlotte runs to find him and can't. The unthinkable has happened. Gabriel is missing.

A missing child and subsequent search and investigation is enough excitement to hold up a plot. Adding one complication, the hate mail Corina receives as a well known journalist is an understandable concern. But Mofina ups the ante to almost unbelievable levels. The number of secrets, twists, and extraneous directions the investigation takes is throwing everything into the plot, including the kitchen sink. The whole twenty-one year old "boyfriend" of your sixteen-year-old daughter thread could have been left out, as could Robert's big secrets.

The characters are portrayed as realistic individuals, except for maybe the whole withholding of major pieces of information that might be connected to the search for their SON. However, while reading your emotions will be running high as you wait for the characters to just tell the whole truth.

Admittedly, it held my attention because of all the secrets and intrigue, but in the end I felt as if the main concern, Gabriel, was being buried under all the other plot threads and characters included in the narrative. This overload of extras that maybe were possibly connected with the investigation actually slowed down the novel and the main concern - searching for Gabriel. 3.5 rounded up. Thanks to MIRA for providing me with an advance reader's copy via NetGalley. My review is voluntary and expresses my honest opinion.
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